Debate ...

[Inuca]

17. Romney was aggressive

and when silent seemed to have swallowed something really sour, that pained semi-smile of his that at times looks like he is on the verge of tears. This being said, as debating skills go, from his point of view and IMHO because I know close to nothing about debates, I think that he did what he had to do very well. My sinking feeling last night (which has not yet abated was not so much that Romney was good, I was almost sure he will be, I saw most of the primary debates, and yes, they were mostly a clown show, but still he was between OK and really good in all of them, I think, so (apologies for the rambling sentences) it's not so much that Romney was good, it's that I think that Obama was really bad. I heard a bit of Axelrod on Morning Joe, then turned the TV off, can't stomach it yet, Axelrod was saying that Obama treated the audience like adults, he kept coming back to the adults theme, guess it's the current talking point, or at least it was in the morning. I don't think it's enough. He really seemed off his game, he did not seem into it... I heard or read some comment comparing his demeanor to the infamous GHWB moment when he looked at his watch, I am sorry, but I thought of that also as I was watching. I know I sound silly, but the expression on his face while R was talking, the constant looking down, the pained smile.... what on earth was wrong with him?!?!? I think I read a comment on Kos last night that right before the debate he was told about the Turkey mini-attach on Syria, maybe it had something to do with that, who knows.... the same Obama that was making jokes while the raid on Ben Laden was going on?